This article investigates negotiations of librarians’ expertise in relation to information literacy at the micro-level, specifically in the domain of nursing education. A qualitaitve empirical framework is employed. The study draws on 18 semi-structured interviews, 16 with Swedish nursing students, one with a librarian and one with a nursing professor. Three themes on librarians’ expertise emer...

In Volume 3, #1 of the Journal of Technology Education, Pannabecker (1991) identified shortcomings in the language that has shaped perspectives within technology education, and raised an issue for dialogue. This essay is intended to extend Pannabecker's critique to include the metaphors of autonomous and advancing technology, and their supporting ideology of technological progress. Reasons for ...

Abstract This article addresses the view that Cicero's Pro Roscio Amerino contains ‘criticism’ of Sulla (the ‘anti-Sulla’ thesis). It argues there is no evidence criticism, Cicero had incentive to criticize Sulla, and his attack aimed solely against Chrysogonus. In particular, draws attention methodological implications thesis, arguing it unsound second-guess meaning, project ‘sarcasm’ onto wor...

One of the leading problems modern Russian literary criticism is development grounds for describing process as a complex interaction new communicative conditions existence artistic literature, forms its production and consumption. Since sphere studies has been searching universal laws creativity more than two centuries, poetics literature was formed within framework various methodological schoo...

Choices not only reflect our preference, but they also affect our behavior. The phenomenon of choice-induced preference change has been of interest to cognitive dissonance researchers in social psychology, and more recently, it has attracted the attention of researchers in economics and neuroscience. Preference modulation after the mere act of making a choice has been repeatedly demonstrated ov...

Aim: The paper explores the concepts and methods of evaluation in nursing education. Rationale: Evaluation of nursing education is a topic received much attention by the scientific community recently. The introduction and the background information of the paper highlight the theoretical endorsement of evaluation, the necessity of evaluation in education and the strenuous effort to find workable...

Abstract This review article of Joseph Farrell’s 2021 monograph on Virgil’s Aeneid ( Juno’s Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity , Princeton and Oxford) takes the cue from analysis intertextuality with Homeric epics provides a methodological re-assessment in Virgilian studies Latin literature more broadly. It attempts to retrace theoretical history some main applications intertextual suggests p...

This study examined whether, in a community sample of Israeli adults (N = 335), benign (i.e., affiliative and self-enhancing) and injurious (i.e., aggressive and self-defeating) humor styles mediated or moderated the relationship between self-criticism and neediness, two traits that confer vulnerability to depression, on the one hand, and levels of depressive symptoms, on the other. There was n...